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Show ! ; ji I Coiest Irisb flew i . ): ULSTER. '.'.'i.. Two Orangemen were fined 10s each ' i j and bound to the peace for twelce . ' j . : months, and a third was bound to the ; . . i peace for six months, at Lisnaskea, on ',. February 12, in connection with a dis- . . . turbance at Maguiresbridge when the ; . ' Nationalists were celebrating the vic- ! tory of Mr. Jordan, M. P., in South Fcr- ; tnanagh. '.'- ; ' j i The net amount of the estate of the ; late Mr. Patrick Mruphy of Marcus ' , j square, Newry, is officially declared to ' ' , ; be 103,100 13s Td, the English assets i ' ' , 'being 47,416 4s 6d; and duty has been ' . . ! I'ald to the amount of 9,315. Mr. Mur- j . phy's bequests include many thousands 1 'to various Irish charities. ' , j James McCullagh. J. P.. a familiar j figure in County Monaghan, died on I February 13, at his residence, Glaslough. i Deceased had acted for a time as agent t to Sir John Leslie. Lord Temid?ton and f 'Colonel Scudamore. He was higli nlier- I j iff for County Monaghan in lb93, and j Jield the magistracy for Moiaghan. Fer- ' , hanagh, and Donegal. A kwn judge of cattle, he was well known at the Belfast Bel-fast and Dublin shows. ; ! H. Stewart Moore, C. E., Rallydivlty House. Dcrvock, has been appointed ! civil engineer by the trustees of the Lough Neagh Drainage district. MUNSTER. , While inspecting a farm in Touroen :East, on the O'Brien estate on February ! ,12, 11. D. O'Brien of Limerick, the land- ' aord's agent was given very positive proof of the disfavor in which he Is held by the whizzing of a dozen or more bul- Jets around his head. The shots had (the effect of accelerating Mr. O'Brien's departure from the district without v.aiting to finish his inspection. Rev. Malachi O'Gorman, P. P., Broad-jford, Broad-jford, died on February 14, at the age of 72 years. Father O'Gorman, who was a, native of Corofin, spent about 45 years - jn the sacred ministry, and for 20 years j liad charge of the parish of Broadford. 1 While a train was traveling from j .Ennis during a heavy storm on the morning of February 17, the engine and ; two carriages were blown off the rails , ' near Clooney, and rolled down the em bankment. It is stated there were no , personal injuries. This Is the second accident of this character on the line. . The Italian steamer F. S. Clampa was wrecked and the entire crew drowned , ' tseven miles from the Old Head, Kin- , ' ' bale, on February IS. t LEINSTER. The interment took place on February H2 at the convent of La Sainte Union de 'Sacre Coeur of Mother Leonce Browne. ; iThe deceased lady was in the 74th year -; 1 ' . her age, and the 4Sth of her religious profession. She was a member of the , Athlone Community for the last 25 ' years, and her death was greatly re gretted by the Sisters and the townspeople towns-people generally, which was evidenced f by the large funeral procession in the convent grounds. : A large and representative meeting to forward the claims of the town tenants ten-ants was held in the Market square, Longford, on February 13, and was addressed ad-dressed by Messrs. Phillips, Farrell, Igoe and McGuinness. On Monday evening even-ing the usual fortnightly meeting was held, and from the minutes it appeared that there are not 60 members yet Joined in the -organization. The death is announced of William . . : ' . ' Wallis Healy, for nearly 40 years a member of the Irish Times reporting staff. He was one of the best known , journalists in Ireland. John Hughes, D. Ac., Ardagh, recently eold the produce of less than three Irish rods of old meadow hay for the extraordinary extra-ordinary price of 12. Who says farm-' farm-' ing doesn't pay? C0NNAUGHT. The Roscommon town commissioners Tiave received 300 for the site at the old Market House, purchased from them "by the postoffice authorities for the erection of a new postoffice. The Clanrlcarde tenants have signed e petition to the Congested Districts Board to put the provisions of the new i land act in force over the entire estate. A destructive fire occurred at Loughglynn, on the night of February ' 1 36. when the licensed premises and out offices of Patrick Webb were destroyed, -' . the damage being estimated at 7,000. " ; The golden jubilee of Mother Bernard . Leonard and Sister Mary Evangelist Kilkelly has just been celebrated at the Convent of Mercy, Castlebar. Apart from the religious ceremonies, relatives ; ; and friends sent hearty congratulations to the good Sisters, who were among the first to be associated with the foun-( foun-( . dation of the order in the town. Closing of Kilmainham Prison. I. . The closing of Kilmainham prison on February 28 ends an eventful history. I The prison was opened in 1809, and soon after became a disgrace to civilization. , j Huddled together in small cells, with scarcely any ventilation, and with all the surroundings leading to infamy and ' hame, the victims languished until. In . a very large percentage of cases, death : f i released them from their earthly tor- ' ,tures. For more than seventy years the I records show the sad story of some ; ; : jthousands of prisoners and of a num- . jler of executions in the early days for offenses which are no longer regarded I , j ; as deserving of more than a few months' ', , ; Imprisonment. j .". . ; The cost of the erection and the main- .!,;' tenance of the building was defrayed i . by a tax levied on the peopel of County 1 ' EDublin and adjoining counties, to which ithe grand juries assented, and after- ; -wards by a rate in aid from the city. 4 iThe attention of both the old and the new world was fixed on Kilmainham In 1SS1. when Mr. Parnell. Thomas Sex-? Sex-? . ton, John Dillon and a number of their colleagues were arrested and pent to Kilmainham. from which Mr. Parnell was released in April, 1SS2, and "Buck-i "Buck-i ' ' shot" Forster resigned the chief secre- j taryshlp. Meanwhile the name of the ; ' . prison was quoted in parliament and ! ', the press until it became as familiar in i : distant places as it is to the people in this country. The alleged "Kilmainham ' . ; Treaty" was as much discussed as if : ' Jt dealt with the most momentous ques- i ; tion of the hour. s 1 Many are the reminiscences that have ' ' jbeen published of the experiences of I the parliamentary prisoners and their friends, but none of them is more in ' terestlng than the account given by Mr. Parnell as a witness before a vice-; vice-; regal commission on Irish prisons, held , in 1SS5, and which appears to have been forgotten, burled as it is in a huge blue book. The commission inquired into the i general treatment of prisoners, the ap- , pointment of officers, suitability of j buildings, etc. Among the witnesses ex- J . i amined were chaplains, doctors, offi- ; ; rials, the last of which was Captain ! " Dunn, who died but a few weeks since. t ' :- The only large Jails now remaining ? ", ! open in Ireland are Belfast, Cork, Ar- I ' . , magh. Mount Joy. Marysborough, Gal- I 1 , way, Tralee, Kilkenny, Tullamore, Llm- i crick, Derry, Dundalk. Castlebar, Sligo : and Waterford. The closing of a num- I ber of Irish prisons was recommendea by the commissioners and this has been adopted. What Kilmainham prison is to be utilized for has not yet been decided de-cided on. Irish World. The Grain Crop in Ireland. Consul H. S. Culver sends from Cork a summarized statement, from official returns, of the grain crops in Ireland in 1909, showing excellent yields. There was an increase of 6,929 acres in the area of wheat, a decrease of 24.5C6 Acres in the area of oats, an increase of 8,504 acres in the area of barley, a decrease of 586 acres in the area of rye, a decrease de-crease of 168 acres In the area of beans, and a decrease of 33 acres in the area of peas. The total yield of what in 1909 was 939,815 hundredweight, on increase of 192.S68 hundredweight as compared with 1908; of oats 19.399,503 hundredweight, an increase of 1.159.745 hundredweight; of barley, 3,574,193 hundreweight, an increase in-crease of 516.S46 hundredweight; of rye. 115.658 hundredweight, a decrease of 1.932 hundredweight; of beans, 38.874 hundredweight, an Increase of 288 hundredweight, hun-dredweight, and of peas, 4.050 hundredweight, hundred-weight, an increase of 89 hundredweight Proportion of Catholic Immigrants. The report of United States Commissioner Commis-sioner General of Immigration Parker, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, has Just been issued. Immigration is a subject of great interest to American Catholics, because the church is largely recruited from European immigration, and the religious needs of the new recruits re-cruits must be considered. As In past years, the great majority of the immigrants immi-grants coming to our shores are from Catholic countries. Of the 654,000 whoj arrived during the year ending June 30, 1909, Austria-Hungary sent 170,000 and Italy 1S3.000. Add to these 25,000 from Ireland. 1S.000 from France. Spain, Portugal and Belgium, and the total from Catholic countries alone is 396.000. If we add to these the Catholic Germans Ger-mans and Poles, probably it, would be safe to classify as Catholics 440,000 of last year's 654,000 immigrants. A Reminder of Mr. Butt's Days. The very first member of the new House of Commons whose voice was heard in the chamber of tha't house was a gentleman who six-and-thirty years ago supported Butt's celebrated motion that the house should form itself into a committee to consider the legislativ? relations established by the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Butt had with him in the division lobby onl sixty-three members a number just one less than the British majority in the House of Commons in favor of an Irish parliament with an Irish executive responsible re-sponsible thereto. Among his supporters kere a few English Eng-lish members five or six among whom was the Hon. Thomas Burt, who proposed pro-posed Mr. Lowther as speaker at the present opening of parliament. Mr. Burt in 1874 was in the first session ol his parliamentary life. He now the "Father of the House of Commons," and was the very first working man's representative who proposed a membet for election to the speakership. ' He ha3 been a consistent and enthusiastic friend of Irish rights and liberties. Amongst the other English members who voted with Mr. Butt and the Irish party on that historic occasion one survivesSir sur-vivesSir Charles Dllke. The others have passed away Mr. Macdonald. the first working man ever returned to the House of Commons; Sir Edward Gour-ley Gour-ley and Joseph Cowen of Newcastle, a man of great and commanding genius and a renowned parliamentary and platform speaker. Beyond! (By John W. Coveney, S. J.) At morn on heaven's shore, When death's dark night is o'er. While yet bewildered and alone I stand, Who first with friendly grace, From out that spirit race. Will bear to me the sun-clad King's command? What need of herald from the throne If conscience flout the sins I recked not to bemoan? For then, with smiting shame, Must memory proclaim My destiny 'fore heaven's squadroned host! What din or battle sound Can quaking heart confound Like that dread dawning sense of heaven lost. When bare before her Maker's eyes My soul appears in all her vile enormities? enormi-ties? Oh! whither shall I flee? Just God! I have no plea! As fettered dove against Its prison-bars prison-bars Beats out Its fluttering life. E'en now, in senseless strife, Would I my spirit yield to listening stars If aught could Thy poised sentence stay! Lo! I but dream! Time hath not merged in Judgment day. Then don Thy thorny crown. Dear Lord, Thy crimsoned gown Put on! that I may still for mercy pray j While yet Thy Heart doth bleed! j I ask not for the meed No eye hath seen; enough to toil al-way, al-way, If at the dawn Thy kind embrace. With welcome wake my soul in Thy fair biding place! The Great German Leader. Today our hearts go out in sympathy towards the Catholics in France, especially es-pecially towards the priestB and bishops, bish-ops, who are engaged in a severe struggle strug-gle against an anti-Christian Masonic government. Thirty years ago the eyes of the world were turned to a similar warfare, that in which the Catholics of Germany were engaged for the defense of the rights and liberties of the church. The history of that memorable struggle furnishes many valuable lessons to all Catholics. It may be well to call attention first to a misconception which is found in-many in-many places, namely in regard to the number of German Catholics. Again and again you may hear the expression: expres-sion: "Protestant Germany." And yet, as a careful reader of the Pilot could have notived from its issue of February 5, 1910, among the 61,000,000 of the population popu-lation of Germany there are no less than 22,000,000 Catholics, that is over one-third of the whole population; of these 22,000,000 about 20,000,000 are of German extraction. If we add the 10,000,000 of Austrian Catholics who are of German descent, and those living in Switzerland, the United States and elsewhere, we have at least 35,00,000 Catholics of German extraction, or one-eighth of the whole number of Catholics in the world. These facts are little known, probably in consequence of the constant designation designa-tion of Germany as Protestant. I have often wondered why it is that certain people so persistently claim j Germany as a. Protestant country. We seldom hear them speak of Protestant Denmark, or Norway, although these countries are really Protestant. The reason seems to be that those countries are rather small, but Germany is one of the leading countries in the world, ! prominent In science, education, industry indus-try and commerce. And It is well known that in certain quarters all modern progress is claimed for Protestantism. Those who include Germany among the Protestant nations forget that among the most flourishing and progressive pro-gressive porvlnces of the empire, are the Catholic provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia, and that among the most beautiful, the most progessive citleB, we iind Catholic Cologne, Munich Mu-nich and many other distinctly Catholic cities. It is well for Catholics to remember re-member such facts, and to correct extravagant ex-travagant claims made for Proteseant-Ism. Proteseant-Ism. If we contrast the condition of the Catholics in Germany and in France in their respective struggles, we notice that the German Catholics were inferior in number, but they possessed what the French Catholics sadly lack; unity, organization or-ganization and a great leader. The leader was Ludwig Windthorst, one of the greatest Catholics of the nineteenth century. Rev. Robert Schwickeraeh, S. J. Irish Relics. Among the antiques in the library of the house of commons are the old table of the house at which Burke and Fox and Pitt and Sheridan spoke, which was rescued from the fire in 1S34; the journals of the house, including the journal of 1621 from which" Kins James the First with his own hand erased the celebrated protestation and declaration of the rights and liberties of the house of commons, and the journal of 1642, in which the record of the appearance of Charles I in the house of commons to demand the arrest of the five members is written by the clerk with an agitation agita-tion which is plainly demonstrated by his handwriting; and the key to the old vaults of the old house of commons of Guy Fawkes' time. TJese are to be enriched en-riched by a mallet and chisels used by Henry Broadhurst, M. P.. from 1880 to 1896 Mr. Broadhurst, before entering parliament, was a stonemason and was employed in the work of rebuilding the house of parliament, of which he was later a member. The tools he has just contributed to the list of ancient relics, were used by himself in his'work on the buildings. Mr. Broadhurst was the first labor representative to become a member mem-ber of the government and to sit on the treasury bench as under secretary of state for the home department In 1886. Mr. Broadhurst, like every labor member mem-ber who has ever sat in the house of commons, was, and is, a good home ruler. Catholic Herald. Catholic Actress Married. Mgr. Lavelle, pastor of St. Patrick's cathedral, New York, officiated at the marriage of Miss Eleanor Robson, the actress, and August Belmont, which took place last Saturday. Miss Robson was born in England thirty-one years ago. After the death of her father, her mother, well known as Mrs. Madge Carr Cook, creator of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," married again and the family came to this country. At the age of seven Miss Robson was placed in St. Peter's academy, Staten Island, and remained there until her eighteenth year. Her successful stage career ended with the fall of the curtain cur-tain In "The Dawn of a Tomorrow," on February 12. Her most popular part was the title role in "Merely Mary Ann." Lead, Kindly Light. Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home Lead Thou me on! Keeu Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed .that Thou Shouldst lead me on. I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and spite of fears, Pride ruled my will; remember not past years. So long Thy power hath blessed me sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, tor-rent, till Thy night is gone. And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. By John Henry Cardinal Newman. American Criminality. Seeing ourselves as others see us is sometimes an advisable, if not always a pleasurable, proceeding; but the citizens citi-zens of this country need not consult foreign vision for a graphic picture of United States crime. There is always a subconscious and satisfactory feeling that foregin critics are exaggerating beyond be-yond all credible bounds when they write, as did the Englishman, Sydney Brooks, in the London Chronicle a year or two ago; "Any American who can afford to engage a lawyer may commit a murder with almost complete impunity. im-punity. The odds are rather over seventy sev-enty to one against his being executed. I am not speaking at random, but am summarizing the criminal statistics of the last twenty years. They make appalling ap-palling reading. They show that America is the only country where the proportion of murders to population is positively on the increase." Coming from a Britisher, this testimony testi-mony may perhaps be regarded by some as too highly colored by national jealousy. One of ourselves, however, Mr. Hugh C. Weir, contributes to a Chicago periodical. The World Today, an article on American criminality that Is calculated to stagger optimism and silence bragging about our incomparable incompara-ble greatness and glory. Here are a few of Mr. Weir's more striking statements. state-ments. "In this country 10,000 persons are murdered every year shot, strangled, poisoned, stabbed or beaten with a club or a sand-bag. Of the murderers, two in every 100 are punished. The remaining remain-ing ninety-eight escape absolutely free! In many of our states, the proportion pro-portion of convictions is only half as great. In Georgia, for instance, only one murderer in every 100 is punished. In a recent census of American crimo, digesting the nation as a whole, the statement was made that in only 1.3 per cent of our homicides do we secure a conviction. Chicago averages 118 murders in a year. In the same space of time Paris records only fifteen murders and attempted at-tempted murders. London, four times the size of Chicago, has only twenty murders. In the course of twelve months, Georgia (a typical example of the average American state) records forty-five homicides more than the whole of the British empire! More people are murdered In this country In a year than are killed on the railroads. In three years the victims of our murder mur-der cases total more than the losses of the British army in the Boer war. .... There are four and a half times as many murders for every million of our population today as there were twenty years ago! And our Increased wickedness is confined con-fined to our own borders. In the march of civilization, as applied to the protection pro-tection of public life and public prop-perty, prop-perty, we have fallen woefully behind. We may lead the globe in many things. We assuredly lead it in crime. In 95 per cent of the homicides of Germany, the guilty person is brought to justice. In Spain, the number of convictions is 85 per cent of the total number of crimes. In France, it is 61 per cent; in Italy, 77 per cent; in England, 50 per cent. Do these facts when offset against our two convictions in every 100 murders explain why our lawlessness lawless-ness is increasing; why we1 have more homicides every year than Italy, Austria, Aus-tria, France, Belbium, England, Ire- i land, Scotland, Spain. Hungary, Holland Hol-land and Germany combined?" We have repeated-iy deplored in these columns the defects of our criminal law, cr its ineffective administration. Our present President and his predecessor prede-cessor have frequently instanced the neighboring Dominion of Canada as a model to be imitated -in the matter of dealing with criminals: and the foregoing fore-going statistics indicate that the imitation imi-tation cannot begin too soon. Ave Maria. Cardinal Vannutelli Will Come. ( The Pope has officially appointed Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli as legate to the Eucharist congress, which will be held at Montreal in September. Cardinal Vannutelli will take the cp-; portunity to visit the whole of Canala and a large part of the United State?. J i Reflections for Passiontide. If thou knowest not how to meditate on high and heavenly things, rest in the passion of Christ, and dwell in His sacred wounds. For if thou fliest devoutly de-voutly to the wounds and precious stigmata of Jesus, thou Shalt feel great comfort in tribulation; neither wilt thou much regard being despised, by men; and wilt easily bear up against detraction. Imitation of Christ. How consoling it is to suffer under the eyes of God and to be able to say to one's self in the night examination of conscience: "Come, my soul, we have had today two or three hours of resemblance to Jesus ' Christ we have been scourged, crowned with thorns and crucified with Him." Oh, what a treasure for death! How good it is to die after living on the cross. We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after gold. The cross is the only thing that will give us confidence In the day of Judgment. When that day comes, how happy we shall be in our miseries, how proud of our humiliations, humilia-tions, how rich in our sacrifices! The Cure of Ars. The four extremities of the cross are ornaments with four precious pearls. Humility Is placed at the foot, obedience occupies the right, patience the left; charity, the first and queen of virtues, burns in letters of gold at) the head. These four virtues shine if. a most striking manner in the Passion Pas-sion of Jesus Christ. They are the four principal fruits which we must gather from mediation on Jesus crucified. St. Benard. Mr. Birrei. That some rather acrimonious criticisms criti-cisms of Mr. Augustine Birrell, appearing appear-ing In one or two of our transatlantic exchanges, do not reflect the best Irish thought, is clear from this declaration of his Eminence Cardinal Logue: A brighter future has been opened up to Irish Catholic youth by the institution institu-tion of the new National university. True, it falls far short of the satisfactory satisfac-tory establishment for which Irish Catholics have long striven, and which was their due, if any pretense of equality equal-ity is to be maintained. Like all gifts coming from the same quarter, its merits mer-its are marred by its shortcomings. It bears the stap of that niggard spirit, unworthy suspicion, and groundless prejudice which have ever marked concessions con-cessions made to Irish Catholics. It would be unjust to lay the blame for these defects at the door of the eminent emi-nent statesman to whom the gift is mainly due. He did the best he could in the face of adverse circumstances. He had to struggle against influences and prejudices which have long been hostile to Irish Catholics; and he main tained the struggle with a persevering determination which enabled him to succeed, in part at least, where so many others have miserably and utterly failed. Ingratitude has never been a constituent con-stituent ingredient of Irish character, and the woe of English domination has been the lamentably few occasions when there has been any reason for the expression ex-pression of warm-hearted Irish thanks. Ave Maria. The Church and Symbols. The church is profuse in the use of symbols. They form its most eloquent expressions. The dove reminds us of the Holy Ghost, the lamb and the pelican peli-can recall the mysteries of the Incarnation Incar-nation and sacrifice. The lily speaks of purity. The ship or the ark, is the emblem em-blem of the church. No emblem is so expressive of love as the figure of the Sacred Heart. When our eyes fall upon that symbol, circled by a thorny crown, with blood drops falling from its cloven center, and flames shooting from its top, the mind is at once brought into contact with the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. This pictured Heart is the summary of a Divine life's devotion and charity. But the figure of the Sacred Sa-cred Heart is more than a symbol of Jesus' love. It is the symbol of the instrument in-strument and organ whence that love was displayed. It serves to bring us into contact with the Eternal Word, for it is the symbol of the real Heart of a God, a Heart that lives still, loves and pours out love unceasingly. As Jesus saw with His eyes and heard with His ears, so He loved with His Heart. That Heart would have had no existence If it was not united hypostatically with the person of the Eternal Word. The love of God resides in and acts in the living Heart which the Second Person of the August Trinity assumed when He took a body and soul like ours. All that Jesus Christ did for man had origin In His infinite love; and His human heart, made Divine by hypostatic union, was the organ and instrument through which that infinite love found and finds outflow. Idle Talk. It is the fashion to talk cynically of our fellow creatures, and to pretend to believe only in interested motives and selfish reasons for good deeds, but the experience of every one of us belies the words, and time would fall to tell of kindness done by helping hands stretched out, aid given, which we have all seen, which could not be explained by any interested motive. |